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Updated: June 9, 2025
Canst see? Canst see, Tematau?" Niâbon placed her hand on mine. "Have no fear, Simi. The wind is fair and the passage through the reef is wide, and the ship on the right hand is a good guide. See, her masts stand out clear against the sky. And give me the tiller, for thou and Lucia are tired. So sleep sleep till the dawn, and Tematau and Tepi and I shall keep watch through the night.
And she so loves thee, Simi; ah, she so loves thee." The soft murmur of her voice enthralled, took such possession of me mentally and physically, that I know not what I answered except that I said again and again, "Ay, I love her, I love her, and I shall tell her of my love, and that she, and she alone, is my heart's desire."
"Shall I fill thy pipe, Simi?" she asked me as she approached me in a manner so self-reliant and unconcerned, and yet so dignified, that physically and mentally exhausted as I was I could not but feel astonished.
Overland's eyelids flickered. He grinned. "Uhuh! I could hear you clean over in the Simi Valley. I was thinkin' of comin' right back, only " "Oh, if you think I'm lyin to you " Overland thrust up a soiled palm. "Nix; you never did yet. How much coin can you rustle?" "I got that eight-and-a-half I had when we was pinched. It's down to the bunk-house."
Their wooden bowls and troughs are of different forms and sizes, and most generally dug out of a solid piece; they are ither round or simi globular, in the form of a canoe, cubic, and cubic at top terminating in a globe at bottom; these are extreemly well executed and many of them neatly carved the larger vessels with hand-holes to them; in these vessels they boil their fish or flesh by means of hot stones which they immerce in the water with the article to be boiled. they also render the oil of fish or other anamals in the same manner. their baskets are formed of cedar bark and beargrass so closely interwoven with the fingers that they are watertight without the aid of gum or rosin; some of these are highly ornamented with strans of beargrass which they dye of several colours and interweave in a great variety of figures; this serves them the double perpose of holding their water or wearing on their heads; and are of different capacites from that of the smallest cup to five or six gallons; they are generally of a conic form or reather the segment of a cone of which the smaller end forms the base or bottom of the basket. these they make very expediciously and dispose off for a mear trifle. it is for the construction of these baskets that the beargrass becomes an article of traffic among the natives this grass grows only on their high mountains near the snowey region; the blade is about 3/8 of an inch wide and 2 feet long smoth pliant and strong; the young blades which are white from not being exposed to the sun or air, are those most commonly employed, particularly in their neatest work.
All that she said to me that night as we returned over the stilly waters of the lagoon to our companions, I cannot now remember; I only know that as she sat facing me, and I paddled slowly and dreamily along, I promised her, dully and mechanically, to tell Lucia that night that I loved her. "And she and thee will be happy, very happy, Simi. Her heart went out to thee from the very first.
"Be not angry with them, Simi, for there is nought but goodwill toward thee in my heart. See, wouldst have me cure the hot fever that makes the blood in thy veins to boil even now?" "No," I said sullenly, "I want none of thy foolish charms or medicines. Dost think I am a fool?" "Nay," and she looked at me so wistfully that I at once repented of my harsh manner "nay, indeed, Simi.
"It is one of Apinoka's boats, Simi," said Niâbon, "for there is no trader in Apamama; the king will let no one trade here." "Well, we can't help ourselves," I said, as I looked at the boat through my glasses; "she is beating up for us there is no doubt about that. I daresay we shall get rid of them when they find out who we are."
"Very well," I said, with a laugh, "I will talk Tarawan to you: Tiâkâpo, Lucia." "Tiâkâpo, Simi;" and her voice was pleasant and sweet to hear, although the word tiakako meant nothing more than "good-night."
Pancho munched away cheerfully, the stream tinkled and purred; the first star telegraphed its friendly signal down through the ether: to be lost in the Simi was not half bad. Some two hundred yards from camp, at a point where the stream made a turn, I stopped in sudden surprise at the sight of a light shining among a clump of small live-oaks near by to my right.
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